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Biodiversity
Biogeochemical cycle
Biomass (ecology)
Biosphere
Bryophyte
Bulk density
Calculation
Carbon fixation
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Cyanobacteria
Decomposer
Denitrification
Dietary element
Ecology
Ecophysiology
Ecosystem
Ecosystem model
Endemism
Energy flow (ecology)
Environmental factor
Environmental gradient
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Erosion
Essential nutrient
Factorial experiment
Forest dieback
Fumigation
Geochemical cycle
Geochemistry
Humus
Immobilization (soil science)
Leachate
Leaf area index
Lignin
Long-term experiment
Lysimeter
Mass balance
Metrosideros
Mineralization (soil science)
Negative feedback
Nitrification
Nitrogen
Nitrogenase
Nutrient
Nutrient cycle
Nutrient resorption
Organism
Oxisol
Phosphate
Plant and Soil
Plant nutrition
Primary production
Primary succession
Sediment
Soil
Soil organic matter
Soil science
Soil texture
Stoichiometry
Subsidence
Sulfate
Terrestrial ecosystem
Topsoil
Trace gas
Trade winds
Vascular plant
Water
Water cycle
Weathering
Wetland
Product details
- ISBN 9780691115801
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jul 2004
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The availability or lack of nutrients shapes ecosystems in fundamental ways. From forest productivity to soil fertility, from the diversity of animals to the composition of microbial communities, nutrient cycling and limitation are the basic mechanisms underlying ecosystem ecology. In this book, Peter Vitousek builds on over twenty years of research in Hawai'i to evaluate the controls and consequences of variation in nutrient availability and limitation. Integrating research from geochemistry, pedology, atmospheric chemistry, ecophysiology, and ecology, Vitousek addresses fundamental questions: How do the cycles of different elements interact? How do biological processes operating in minutes or hours interact with geochemical processes operating over millions of years? How does biological diversity interact with nutrient cycling and limitation in ecosystems? The Hawaiian Islands provide the author with an excellent model system for answering these questions as he integrates across levels of biological organization. He evaluates the connections between plant nutrient use efficiency, nutrient cycling and limitation within ecosystems, and nutrient input-output budgets of ecosystems.
This book makes use of the Hawaiian ecosystems to explore the mechanisms that shape productivity and diversity in ecosystems throughout the world. It will be essential reading for all ecologists and environmental scientists.
Peter M. Vitousek is Clifford G. Morrison Professor of Population and Resource Studies at Stanford University.
